Avoiding them helped me get over the five-year hump, when more than 50% of startups shutter.

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"Normally it would take me five minutes to get there, but it would have meant going half way up to York and then coming back on myself to get there, " he said.

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When I was studying with Horowitz in the late 1940s, he told me that it had taken him five years to get used to that action.

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It had been open just one day when I arrived, and the new rail service would save me from retracing the uncomfortable five-hour bus trip I had endured to get here from the tourist hub of Guilin city, about 150km to the southeast.

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"It's the bureaucratic part that, once they make the request for me on my behalf, for the past five weeks, I don't get a response, " Davis said.

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When I accepted the assignment to reflect on those events five years later, I found myself thinking about a couple of people who had helped me get through that day.

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